Parenting in the Age of Screen Time

Setting screen time rules isn’t simple, but Anya Kamenetz’ new book, “The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life,” aims to help parents moderate technology in their children’s lives.

Kamenetz, an expert on education and technology, spoke with Mimi Ito, director of the Connected Learning Lab at the University of California, Irvine, in the first in a series of online conversations and podcasts, featuring books and research that aim to help educators, scholars, parents and technology makers make sense of learning in the digital age.

Many parents, Kamenetz said, “seem to have trouble exercising their authority in terms of actually making rules and sticking to them.”

“There isn’t a one-size fits all solution,” Ito said. “Consistency and some kind of shared family norms are important. … The underlying thing is you have to have a set of shared values with your family but there’s such a hunger for easy standardized guidelines… People want some easy guidelines and don’t want to be told, ‘well it kind of depends.’ ”

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